Thermal stress energy tensors and entropy of radiation in the Schwarzschild background

1993
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.A 181 (1993) 105-108

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
It is shown that the effective entropy density of Hawking radiation near a Schwarzschild black hole contains a pure quantum term proportional to the trace anomaly. The obtained formula is valid for any massless field and displays which restrictions the thermal stress-energy tensor must obey to ensure positivity of entropy.
  • black hole: Schwarzschild
  • radiation: Hawking
  • entropy: density
  • tensor: energy-momentum